Just launched: Surthrival Series features Daniel Vitalis, Health Ranger teaching lifesaving principles of urban preparedness

(NaturalNews) As protests continues to grow in major cities worldwide, those who are paying attention know that a time of rioting and collapse is fast approaching . European banks are on the brink of default, and a collapse in Europe will drag the U.S. even more deeply into its own downward spiral of financial insolvency. How long can the system hold out before we see massive protests, riots and even a “second American revolution” begin to unfold? More importantly, how will you not only survive the inevitable disruptions in basic resources (water, electricity, heating oil, local law enforcement, etc.) but how will you THRIVE through any crisis and always come out ahead? Real solutions for people who live in cities or suburbs My friend Daniel Vitalis is not only the founder of one of the most innovative nutritional supplement companies in America (www.Surthrival.com), he’s also an expert in primitive skills such as food foraging, fire starting, and shelter construction. One day as we were talking about primitive skills and the coming “reboot” of society (as he calls it), I asked the question, “Why isn’t there a course on preparedness and survival for people living in the cities or suburbs?” Most of the preparedness information available today is geared toward wilderness survival . But most people don’t live in the wilderness — they live in the city or surrounding suburbs. They might have a small yard to grow some veggies, but they don’t have huge acreage to go foraging for wild food, for example. They have a roof over their heads, but when the electricity and heating oil stops, they don’t necessarily know how to stay warm and well fed inside their house or apartment. In other words: How do city people survive the crisis that we all sense is coming? Introducing the Surthrival Series To help answer this question, Daniel Vitalis and I (the Health Ranger) put together a totally unique preparedness and survival course that teaches and even demonstrates the skills you need to survive in any city, suburb or even a ranch setting. Most importantly, this is not a “Rambo survival course” that tries to dramatize Man vs. the Wild . This is not a “run around a shoot everybody and be the last man standing” survival course. Instead, this is a thoughtful, thorough instructional course that focuses on the real skills you will need to survive and thrive: Skills like food preservation, bartering, staying warm in a cold climate, redundant systems for light and heat, how to deal with refugees who need help, how to rig your own non-lethal self defense weapons, and other valuable topics. Better yet, we don’t just show you the skills you need to thrive in any crisis, we share with you the principles of strategic thinking that will get you through almost any situation imaginable. We’ve packaged it all in an online course that you can watch instantly through NaturalNews.TV, our highly popular video site. This course consists of 10 online videos that you can watch on any PC or Mac, plus 3 downloadable audio files (MP3) that you can download and listen to on your iPhone, MP3 player or any computer. Click here for more details on the Surthrival Series course , available exclusively through NaturalNews.TV. What you’re about to learn may help keep you and your family alive How useful is the information you’ll find in this course? It could spell the difference between life and death. And yet, most people don’t know this information. They assume the tap water will always function; that the electrical grid will always be available; and that 911 emergency services will always respond. But in a breakdown scenario, none of these things are likely to be operational, leaving us all to fend for ourselves. How will you do that? The Surthrival Series gives you practical, low-tech solutions that really work to protect your safety, support your basic necessities, and keep you and your family warm and well fed. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this information-packed course: • Why you need a Surthrival course: The most likely causes of disruption or collapse. • How you can feel more confident and prepared in facing the future with the skills and knowledge you need to stay safe. • Why society may be more fragile than you think, affecting banking and trade, food deliveries, municipal infrastructure and more. • Did you realize this? Urban planners never planned cities to suffer functional breakdowns. • Extraordinary tip: How to get FREE courses in emergency medicine , first aid, emergency rescue and much more — right in your own local community! • Why we are already IN the collapse. It has begun! • Why preparedness transforms fear into confidence. • How to stay balanced in being “prepared” for possible breakdowns in society while also remaining positive enough to stay confident. • How to prepare right now even if you life in an apartment or condo in a high-population city. • What simple source of carbohydrates you can store that will literally last for hundreds of years in storage . • How to use “counter thinking” to acquire supplies and resources when they are cheap and readily available. • Key barter items that are cheap now but will be almost invaluable in a collapse scenario. … learn all this and much more in the Surthrival Series . Click here for instant access (start viewing it immediately.) A wealth of survival and preparedness information at your fingertips In The Surthrival Series , you will also learn: • How to protect yourself from radiation, GMOs, petrochemicals, contaminated water and other planet-wide threats to your health. • Why modern society is so distorted that it promotes and favors sociopaths and narcissists — and why that will quickly shift in the post-collapse reality. • Why you should think about your stored food in terms of “thermal units” for heat and not just calories for powering activity. • Why SURVIVAL food is not HIKING food. And why granola bars are basically horse food ! • Why the water infrastructure in every major city is likely to suffer disruptions (or total failures) in almost any survival scenario. • Why to think seriously about the water supply of where you live: Huge regions of North America, Australia and other countries will quickly return to deserts in a collapse. • Why typical “survival kits” are just toys. They won’t keep you alive when you need them. Learn what works better. • Why most survival foods (MREs, etc.) are loaded with genetically modified vegetable oils and other garbage ingredients. • Why “people skills” are crucial survival skills. • Why a post-collapse world could actually lead to healthier people in the long run. • How to intelligently assess your local climate to prepare for the proper shelter and temperature variation. • How to survive in your home through any winter even without your furnace working! • How to source and easily assemble the Health Ranger’s secret light beam weapon for temporarily blinding groups of attackers — no one else is talking about this! • The four elements — earth, water, wind, fire — and what they have to do with Surthrival. • Why traditional “survival” foods are often extremely toxic and may even harm you! • Strategies for getting out of the city during a crisis, including finding alternative routes and practicing escape routes. • Great advice on light-producing devices which should always be in your carry kit. • Key strategies for redundancy for your most high-priority tools or systems. • Why you have to change your food buying habits when thinking about preparedness foods — you’ve got to aim for MORE calories in your food, not less. This is the opposite of the food purchasing habits people follow right now. • Inexpensive preparedness food items you can find at a regular grocery store. • Why merely STORING food isn’t a complete solution — you need to GROW food to live sustainably. Stored food is merely “transition” food, says Vitalis. • Which skills will suddenly become extremely valuable in a post-collapse scenario. Click here to learn even more about what’s in this course. (Watch the preview trailer!) The Surthrival Series also includes downloadable audio programs covering the following: How to create your own GO BAG ($19 value) In this audio program, Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) reveals his own personal recipe for creating a food preparedness GO BAG — a bag that you can grab and go in any emergency, supplying you with food, cooking supplies, water filtration equipment and basic food prep utensils. In this 90-minute downloadable MP3 audio program, you’ll learn: • Which foods you can buy at any grocery store that should be part of your go bag. • Which superfoods will boost your emergency nutrition during a crisis. • Why you should avoid glass containers and actually go with plastic. • Which food basics to be sure to include in your bag. • Recommendations on the actual brand of super heavy duty duffel bags to consider as your go bag. • Details on the world’s best portable water filtration equipment that you’ll want to include. • Which water bottles, cups and boiling pans to consider including. • The exact brand name of the portable camp cooking device to include in your go bag (it can boil water and make soup, tea, or hot beverages). • A list of the exactly cooking utensils to include in your go bag — it’s just enough to get the job done while staying light in weight. • Advice on lighters, matches, soaps, bleach, cleaning devices, plastic storage bags and much more. • How to protect your go bag from mice, ants or other pests. • How to find “processed food” that’s actually decent for your health and will have a long shelf life. • Which food bars to consider including in your go bag — high-density nutrition without the chemical additives. • Advice on items to AVOID putting in your food go bag. • Strategies for carrying water in a vehicle, and which storage containers to consider. • Additional authentic commentary from Mike Adams on the coming collapse, the need to prepare, and why most people won’t listen until it’s too late. Five Mental Strategies for Surviving Anytime, Anywhere In this additional audio program, the Health Ranger reveals his most protected secrets that kept him alive during episodes of being stalked and threatened by Big Pharma operatives. You’ll learn some of the most powerful methods for avoiding conflict and getting your business done without attracting attention. Inside, you’ll learn: • How to blend in and avoid drawing unnecessary attention to yourself. • The importance of setting your ego aside and backing down from a fight. • How to observe the people around you and then mimic them to fit in. • How to anticipate the warning signs of imminent collapse. • Which basic skills can increase your total resourcefulness , allowing you to accomplish more with less. • Why you need to be ahead of the crowd when the financial collapse comes (and ways to make sure you really are). • Why “gearing up” alone won’t save you during the collapse. You also need these crucial skills… • A lifesaving lesson the Health Ranger learned from his knife instructor (and why you should always remember this lesson if conflict looks imminent). • Understanding personal space boundaries and using them to stay safe while blending in. • How to project an unconscious message that you are not a person to be messed with (and why this is important). • The philosophy of the ethical warrior: Helping others when they are in need, yet viciously defending yourself, your family and your property when absolutely necessary. Learn all this and more in the Five Mental Strategies for Surviving Anytime, Anywhere . The full download is available FREE as part of this package. Listen to the MP3 file on any mobile device: iPod, iPad, mobile phone or MP3 player. All MP3 files are downloadable to your iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac or MP3 player All the MP3 files in this course are FULLY DOWNLOADABLE so you can download them all and listen to the course at your leisure, on any device that plays MP3 files. These are high-quality MP3s (320k) that are far superior to typical MP3 files used with audio books, for example. Load ‘em up on your favorite MP3 player and enjoy the program! The videos in this course are streamable (viewable) on any Mac or PC. Watch them any time you wish, and watch them an unlimited number of times from today into the future. They stay permanently in your NaturalNews.TV library so you can access them any time in the future. Tremendous value — get INSTANT ACCESS now In all, you can’t really put a price on the value of this course. You get: • 10 streamable videos • 3 downloadable audio files • 2 valuable bonus items • Huge money-saving discount codes that more than pay for the entire cost of this course Click here to get the Surthrival Series now. Here’s more of what you’ll learn in the Surthrival Series • How to use silver to “preserve” your stored water and protect it from pathogens. • Tips on how to transport water. • How to avoid being ripped off by cheap tools, cheap knives and other cheap tools that will fail when you need them most. • An awesome cordage tying technique, demonstrated by Daniel Vitalis. This technique allows you to keep long cords without tangling them! • The importance of eating clay (yes, eating CLAY) to protect yourself from toxins and radiation. • Why the trace element iodine is so crucial to stock in your preparedness medicine chest. • Unusual nutritional strategies for removing BPA (bisphenol-A), radiation and toxic chemicals from your body. • Why “success” in surthrival is not merely about surviving, but also protecting your genetic code. • How to choose a properly-sized backpack to carry just the right amount of gear. • How to choose a water carrier that protects your water and keeps it cool. Why to consider ceramic… • Why most people vastly underestimate the temperature variation in nature, especially at night. • Why you need to own and carry a thermal under layer made partially from merino wool . • Why you should cover your body’s “pulse points” with thermal protection during cold nights or cold weather. • Why you should never buy a bright color backpack if you really want to survive in the wilderness. • Key preparedness gear that can protect you from dust, keep you warm and even hide your face out in the woods. • Why natural wool is a far better material for warmth and protection compared to synthetic fibers like polypropylene. • Why you should always carry a map of the area in which you live (and add it to your kit). • Important tips for navigation, using a compass, having a declination chart, etc. • Which brand of compass works the most reliably year after year. • Light, portable, high-value items that are perfect for barter. • Why you need a small, portable magnifier • Watch Daniel ignite wood with a magnifying glass. • How to reduce the noise level of your pack and gear, to be quiet as you move through any environment. • The most practical multi-tool for using both in the wilderness as well as urban environments. • Tips about the ultimate wilderness tool – the “survival knife” and why it’s not what you think. • Advanced techniques for using a survival knife to split wood, cut trees for shelter, shave wood for starting fires and much more. • Why you need a dry sack to protect important documents and tools. • The importance of cordage and why you need to stock up on the right kind of cord. • Cold weather strategies for staying warm or treating hypothermia . • Which brand and models of LED lights are highly recommended for reliable, long-term use. • How to wear a knife so that it is accessible yet secure. • Why you are probably vastly underestimating your need for quality cutting edges (knives). • What kind of survival / preparedness gear to AVOID buying. • Demonstration video of using a woodsman knife to chop a tree for firewood, shelter construction, a fence post, etc. Also includes a video demonstration of a technique called “batoning.” • The ultimate toothpaste — it’s made with clay! Here’s the product that protects your gums, cleans your teeth, and provides protection against toxic substances. • Information about zeolites and how they can be used to pull toxic material out of your body . (These were used to help clean Chernobyl.) • Why the food supply may experience severe disruptions in a collapse scenario — and how we can become more independent with our own food supply. • Why it’s important to know your local food providers before a crisis appears. • Strategies for raising your own meat on a small scale. • Tips for gathering wild food: Foraging and hunting. • Why using your lawn to grow grass is a waste of resources: In the near future, lawns will be used to produce FOOD. • Strategies for food storage and how to make sure the food you store is the food that will power you through realistic situations you are likely to encounter. • Why you should sprout all stored grains before you eat them! • Why you should consider storing large quantities of OILS for preparedness — and we’ll reveal the No. 1 best oil to store (hint: You can’t usually find it at the grocery store.) • Strategies for choosing storable foods that last for years on the shelf and yet provide high-density calories when needed. • Why SALT will almost certainly become scarce in a collapse scenario — and where to get it right now dirt cheap from a surprising source. • How to source and store hard-to-get omega-3 fatty acids for long-term preparedness. • How to become proficient in wild plant medicine and food in a relatively short period of time. • Tips for choosing seeds to grow your plants, and then how to “evolve” your plants generation after generation to be better suited to your local soils and climate. • Fascinating thoughts on how the human species has been altered and why the gene pool is shifting. • How to avoid losing stored food to rodents or insects. • Understanding your body’s needs for clean water — and how to provide the very best water in the world. • Busted: the “Spring Water” hoax — most of it is actually well water! • How to find water-producing springs using a clever online map. • Why nearly all surface water on our planet has been contaminated with nuclear fallout from decades of nuclear bomb tests. • Why it’s important to actually store water in your home . • The coming age of water wars. • Important strategies for sourcing and owning water filters — how to make sure you always have one accessible. • What happens when Los Angeles runs out of water? Vitalis discusses various scenarios… • A video demonstration of the Katadyn Expedition ceramic water filter (hand pumped, filters enough water for a whole neighborhood). • Why “nice neighbors” suddenly transform into something very different when water or food becomes scarce. • The coming phase of collapse: People will begin to abandon the cities . • Why all these cities are completely unsustainable: Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, San Diego, Tucson, and more. • Why “earth changes” are completely normal and common, and why the coming changes will make major cities uninhabitable. • Why this course goes BEYOND mere “survival” and teaches how we stay healthy and thrive through any crisis or collapse. This isn’t about guns and ammo as much as it is about seeds and strategies. • Estimates on the survival count following a global economic collapse. • Why mental preparedness is just as important as physical preparedness. • What will happen to the “shelter” properties of your house if electricity and heating oil supplies are disrupted? • Learn about the No. 1 killer in the outdoors and how to avoid it with proper planning and equipment. • Why your current level of body fat dramatically affects your ability to survive in different temperature climates. • The physics of conduction and how to leverage these principles to stay warm in the winter or cool in the summer. • Strategies for “base layer” clothing – the best materials and layering tips. • Tips for easily and affordably generating short-term heat in your home. • Tips for using FOOD to boost your body heat and stay warm. • Why growing your own food requires huge calories and necessarily alters the way you think about food and caloric intake. • How to create your own insulated sleeping gear even if you don’t have a sleeping bag around. • Myths about camp fires and fireplaces — they’re mostly cosmetic and really don’t keep you warm (we explain why). • Why it’s smart to become familiar with using a woodstove for heat and cooking. • Advice on sourcing practical, lightweight tents in case you need shelter that’s mobile. • How to use heat to “sweat out” radiation and toxins. • My #1 top recommended flashlight: Lasts a lifetime and can also be used as a self defense tool. • How to use LIGHT as a powerful defensive tool. • How to project a sense of confidence in public to avoid being targeted by bad people. • How to out-intimidate would-be attackers to make them think twice about attacking you or your property. • The really big preparedness issue almost no one thinks about: Dealing with refugees from the cities . • Strategies for growing a “stealth garden” that isn’t easily recognizable as a sign of being “stocked up” on food. • Why disruptions in 911 and emergency services can cause “normal” people to suddenly become criminal minds. • The best fire-starting gear — what really works (and this may surprise you). • Important safety tips for storing fuels, candles or lighters. • Who to be sure to network with in your local community to make sure you’re considered part of the solution and not the problem. Click here for instant access to the Surthrival Series.

Women endangered by high rate of false-positive mammograms

(NaturalNews) According to mainstream medicine, mammograms are the key to surviving breast cancer because they supposedly catch the disease early for quick treatment. What this advice invariably leaves out is evidence that exposure to the radiation used in the tests may actually cause breast cancer in some women. For example, a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) concluded annual mammography screening significantly increases breast cancer risk in women with a genetic or familial predisposition to the disease (http://www.naturalnews.com/027641_mammograms_breast_cancer.html#ixzz1arooKmoK). Now there’s another reason to be concerned about the push for women to have yearly mammograms. In a new study by University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) research shows that among women who receive a decade of annual mammograms, more than half of those women will be called and told the gut-wrenching news that their tests are positive when they are actually cancer-free. The victims of false-positive results — not a malignancy — are then subjected to more tests. In fact, one in twelve of these women will undergo invasive, potentially breast-scarring biopsy surgery. “This study provides accurate estimates of the risk of a false-positive mammography and breast biopsy for women undergoing repeat mammography in community practice, and so provides important information about the potential harms of undergoing regular mammography,” states Karla Kerlikowske, a professor of medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine. Karla is also the co-author of the study, which was just published in the Annals of Internal Medicine . False-positive mammogram results are rampant The research, led by Group Health Research Institute of Seattle for the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, investigated false-positives in mammography by studying the records of approximately 170,000 women between the ages of 40 and 59 from seven regions around the United States. Almost 4,500 of these research subjects were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. The study found that women who started having mammograms at age 40 instead of 50 were far more likely to have false-positive findings that resulted in more expensive and needless medical tests, including biopsies. Just by changing breast screening from every year to every other year, the researchers documented that a woman’s risk of having a false-positive finding dropped from 61 percent to 42 percent (about a third) over the course of ten years. What’s more, they found that if radiologists would simply review a patient’s previous mammograms it “may halve the odds of a false-positive recall.” The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines now recommend biennial mammograms starting at age 50 and continuing until age 74. However, many doctors still recommend annual mammograms, often beginning at age 40. The new study concluded that after a decade of yearly screening, a majority of women will receive at least one false-positive result. Out of these, 7 to 9 percent will face having a biopsy and the risks that involves — from anesthesia complications to scarring to infection — although these women are, in fact, cancer-free. And what about the argument that yearly mammograms are needed to catch cancer early enough to cure? The researchers found that women screened every two years were not significantly more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage cancer. “We conducted this study to help women know what to expect when they get regular mammograms over the course of many years,” study leader Rebecca Hubbard, PhD, an assistant investigator at Group Health Research Institute, explained in the media statement. “We hope that if women know what to expect with screening, they’ll feel less anxiety if – or when – they are called back for more testing. In the vast majority of cases, this does not mean they have cancer.” Sources for this article include: http://www.ucsf.edu/news http://www.annals.org/ http://www.naturalnews.com/024901.html

Studies show drinking coffee may reduce risk of breast cancer

(NaturalNews) Breast cancer is a serious concern for women. According to the National Cancer Institute, the disease took about 50,000 lives last year in the U.S. alone. But the mainstream media, as well as mainstream medicine, often treat breast cancer as something that strikes out of the blue — giving women no choice but to hope they are not one of the “unlucky” ones to get breast cancer. At the same time this subjects women to to mammography so a malignancy can be spotted early, despite the fact the actual radiation exposure associated with mammograms is known to raise the risk of breast cancer in some women (http://www.naturalnews.com/024901.html). But here’s good news. Scientists studying natural compounds in plants are finding many may offer some level of protection against breast cancer. That means women can start taking control of their breast cancer risk by paying attention to what they eat and drink. In detailed research just published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Breast Cancer Research , scientists from Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute present compelling evidence that something in coffee slashes the risk of breast cancer. The new study concludes that drinking coffee specifically reduces the risk of what researchers call anti-estrogen-resistant estrogen-receptor (ER) negative breast cancer, dubbed ER-negative breast cancer for short. The Sweden research team compared lifestyle factors and coffee consumption between women with breast cancer and women the same age that did not have any breast malignancies. It turns out that coffee drinkers had a far lower incidence of breast cancer overall than women who rarely drank coffee. Delving further into the impact of coffee, the scientists looked at several lifestyle factors that affect breast cancer rates, including age at menopause, exercise, weight, education, and a family history of breast cancer. Once they had adjusted their data to account for all of these factors, they found that the protective effect of coffee on breast cancer zeroed on one type of the disease — the ER-negative breast cancer. Although the evidence appears strong that coffee has beneficial effects in protecting women from ER-negative breast cancer, it’s not clear just what the mechanism and compounds involved are. The researchers noted in a statement to the media that the protection from coffee may be due to way the coffee is prepared, or perhaps the type of coffee bean used. Bottom line: as NaturalNews has reported previously, the new coffee study is the latest in a growing body of scientific data showing that natural substances are formidable weapons to both prevent various types of breast cancer and even halt cancerous growth once cells are malignant. For example, in a study published in the journal Crop Science , Colorado State University scientists studied the anti-cancer activity of six kinds of dry legumes and found consumption of every kind of bean reduced the incidence of cancer and tumors in animal models (http://www.naturalnews.com/025614_cancer_breast_natural.html#ixzz1LyHqNOCb). In addition, Elaine Hardman, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Marshall University School of Medicine, gives this advice to women based on her cancer research: eat more walnuts. Her research strongly suggests those nuts can substantially reduce the risk of breast cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/026115_walnuts_eating_cancer.html#ixzz1LyI8lo00). For more information: http://breast-cancer-research.com/ http://www.naturalnews.com/024901.html http://www.naturalnews.com/029204_broccoli_cancer_cells.html#ixzz1LyILaTFA http://www.naturalnews.com/025633_cancer_oil_olive.html#ixzz1LyIXMiln

Health Ranger’s predictions for 2011 – 2012; an era of self reliance and human awakening

(NaturalNews) What’s ahead for 2011 – 2012? This time in human history promises to bring forth more changes than any other similar duration of time known to our civilization. I believe the changes that will occur in the next two years will rock the foundations of our economies, governments and belief systems. In the end, after considerable turmoil, I see a great expansion of human consciousness and a maturing of the human race. Here are the details… More people growing their own food Beginning in 2011 and continuing for many years beyond, we will see an explosion in the number of people growing their own food. People see the big trends in the food supply fast approaching: GMO contamination of crops, the loss of local food production due to FDA interference, the crackdown on small farmers, and even disruptions in the global food supply. As people realize the importance of having their own home-grown source of food, we will see a surge in backyard gardens, food storage and in-home production methods such as sprouting and food dehydrating. We will see a strong “back to basics” interest surge leading up to 2012, with many people choosing to move out of high-density cities (or even high-density nations) and seek self-reliance in more rural areas. This will also reveal renewed interest in home-grown meat production with more people growing (and eating) their own chickens and cows rather than relying on processed, factory-farmed meats. Increased awareness of natural remedies and health freedom The natural health community will achieve significant victories over the next two years in awakening people to natural remedies, medicinal herbs and the core ideas of health freedom. The monopolistic pushers of pharmaceuticals are fighting a desperate, losing battle to try to keep people ignorant, but they will lose that fight and natural medicine will ultimately emerge as the healing method of choice for an increasing number of people. Natural childbirth will continue to gain recognition around the world, and more parents will begin to question the ADHD drugging of their children. The industry of psychiatry as we know it today will continue crumbling under the burden of fraud and criminal behavior, finally collapsing well before 2020 thanks to the efforts of a few groups, notably CCHR. The global shift away from pharmaceuticals and toward disease prevention and nutrition will accelerate in 2011 – 2012, with vitamin D leading the charge. An increasing number of people will learn about top nutrients such as resveratrol, astaxanthin and omega-3s. Nutrition education will become increasingly evident in public schools, and many school lunch programs will be reworked to remove more processed dead foods and increase real nutrition. Significant victories will be achieved over water fluoridation , mercury fillings and GMOs (see below). The vaccine issue, however, will remain highly contentious. Victory over seasonal flu vaccines will take many more years… More people waking up to reality Today, most people are sleepwalking through their lives, functioning as cogs in a giant machine of which they have no knowledge and no control. Over the next two years, that will significantly change. More and more people will be awakened into a state of awareness . They will realize that living out their lives working mundane jobs, watching television, eating junk food and taking pharmaceuticals is not fulfilling their true purpose in life, and many will seek a higher purpose . An increasing number of people will come to understand that their lives are mere illusion — that they’ve been following programming set out for them by others, and that if they wish to truly achieve freedom (of mind), they must break out of the patterns that have been constructed for them. As a result, we’re going to see more people rebelling against the status quo while simultaneously expanding their own awareness of the bigger picture — how things work in our world and what their role might be in uplifting our shared reality. In the short term, this might result in a tremendous amount of strife, but in the end, it will give rise to a true uplifting of consciousness among the people in our world. Specific upcoming victories in the world of natural health • The People will achieve significant victories over GMOs. I believe that We the People will ultimately win this battle against GMOs in America. As information about the dangers of GMOs continues to spread, people will increasingly demand that GMO foods be labeled. With enough support (perhaps in 2012, but probably later), a law will be passed requiring that GMO foods be labeled as such, and that will spell the beginning of the end of the GMO era in America. • The FDA will, one way or another, be forced to admit that mercury fillings (“silver fillings”) are dangerous for human health. At the very least, the agency will warn that children and expectant mothers should not be exposed to silver fillings. If this does not happen, you can expect a popular revolt against the FDA and a loud cry for the dissolution of the entire agency. • The next big public health battle will be over water fluoridation , and you can expect NaturalNews, the Fluoride Action Network and many other organizations to turn up the heat on the dangers of water fluoridation. Expect to see the fluoride pushers eventually forced to back down and admit that the fluoride dripped into the municipal water supplies is actually collected as a toxic waste byproduct of the phosphate mining industry. (We are releasing a significant mini-documentary on this topic in the next 30 days.) The reputation of the ADA — which has backed mercury fillings for decades — is headed into the dumpsters. • On the issue of freedom and liberty, I predict a surge of interest in Libertarian political philosophy from both former Democrats and former Republicans who realize that the path to prosperity and freedom is found in individual liberty and personal responsibility . I see the Tea Party suffering from disillusionment as its own elected members betray its supporters with more taxes and Big Government spending. Expect to see Ron Paul and Rand Paul do extraordinarily well in the coming years (as long as they stay on principle), and watch for a groundswell of popular support for the once-again-new idea of sensibly limited government. • Watch for a rise in the Tenth Amendment movement in America as an increasing number of Americans fight back against what they see as a dangerous expansion of the power of the federal government. With the TSA in your pants and the FDA in your greenhouse, there’s no telling what part of your life Big Brother wants to control next. America was founded on the idea of limited government , and I believe we’ll see a powerful, passionate movement that seeks to bring the federal government back down to its Constitutionally-mandated size (which is a fraction of its current size and scope). The Tenth Amendment, by the way, specifically reserves all rights not specifically granted to the federal government to be held by the States or the People. The Constitution, for the record, never granted the federal government the right to run a health care system, nor to give away the power to coin money to a private banking cartel, nor to inspect your backyard food production operation that you use to produce jams and jellies for the local farmers’ market. Specific short-term predictions • Expect a new Big Government war on internet freedom. Mostly due to the Wikileaks releases, governments around the world are going to desperately attempt to police the internet and clamp down on web-based free speech. This will likely result in an online war between the “empire” (the USA and the UN) and the “rebel alliance” (the internet hackers such as ‘anonymous’). • By the end of 2012, I predict significant food supply disruptions in North America, brought about either by radical weather affecting crop yields or perhaps the invasion of disease indirectly caused by the over-use of pesticides or GMOs. The number of people in America struggling to feed themselves and their families will rise along with food prices (see next). This will inevitably result in a huge increase in crime (burglaries, thefts) at precisely the same time that cities are laying off local law enforcement officers due to budgetary restrictions. • Expect to see food prices climb with alarming speed over the next two years. Wheat is already on the rise, and even meat prices will surge up sharply before the end of 2012. While food won’t disappear, it will become significantly more expensive, causing more people to shift to subsidized foods (corn, sugar, etc.) which also happen to be some of the worst foods for your health. GMOs are cheap in the short run… until you get your hospital bill. • Oil prices will also trend sharply upwards over the next two years. We will almost certainly see oil at $150 per barrel and possibly even at $200 for a brief time. This will of course impact food prices, the transportation industry and virtually the entire economy. • By late 2012, the economic downfall of the United States will have accelerated, and the inevitable collapse of the U.S. dollar will by that time have become apparent to virtually everyone. The ability of the U.S. Treasury to auction its debt will drop sharply as ratings institutions either downgrade U.S. debt or publicly threaten to. Long-term predictions • Over the next decade, I predict a disappearing “health middle class” and a great divide between the healthy and the sick. The healthy, you see, are consuming superfoods, getting sunshine on their skin and taking nutritional supplements on a daily basis. The unhealthy are eating processed foods, taking prescription medications and following the advice of their ignorant doctors even if it kills them. There will be fewer people of “average” health in America in the coming years. The masses will gravitate toward disease and sickness while the informed few (such as NaturalNews readers, raw food vegans, superfood fans and so on) will get healthier and more productive. • By 2025, the FDA as we know it today will be ancient history, and a new era of food freedom and health freedom will have swept across the former United States of America. Marijuana will become a key crop for raising revenue for the states (or the equivalent governing entity), the pharmaceutical industry will have severely downsized, and the scientific censorship of the FDA will have been abandoned to a chapter of the dark history of America. Millions of doctors, oncologists and useless government bureaucrats will find themselves out of work or, in the most extreme cases, subjected to court trials for their crimes against humanity. • By 2030, it will become obvious that all those people treated with vaccines, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals and conventional medical procedures are largely infertile and dying from degenerative disease. Also by this time, those individuals who ate diets largely made of GMOs, processed foods and artificial chemical additives will discover they, too, are infertile and diseased. The dying, diseased people of the western world will look back upon the “age of medical science” with hatred and disbelief, and the vaccines, chemotherapy, mercury fillings, water fluoridation and other poisons that are common in our world today will, by 2030, be written up in the history books as examples of humanity’s incredible capacity for self-deception and faulty thinking, even in the realm of so-called “science.” Health Ranger predictions are already coming true Many of the predictions I made a year ago have already come true, by the way. These include: • China unleashes armies of corporate espionage hackers onto western nations (now verified as true through Wikileaks cables) • A worldwide shortage of rare earth metals (already under way) • Food supply disruptions (disruptions have been widely reported throughout 2010) • Honeybee population collapse spreads to other species (bats are now threatened, too) • Weather patterns become increasingly radicalized (also widely reported in 2010) • Medical imaging scandal unfolds as older patients begin to show serious health damage from radiation via mammograms, CT scans and more (widely reported in medical journals in 2010) • War on health freedom ramps up, targeting raw milk, homeopathy, herbs and supplements (major raids have been conducted this year on food co-ops and raw milk producers) • New attempts are made to destroy internet freedom (the UN is now planning to roll out internet police, and the U.S. customs department has been seizing websites for the last several months) These are just some of the many predictions I made one year ago. Many more will yet come true in the years ahead. Overall, by the way, I remain optimistic about our future, if only because it is evident that by living through suffering, oppression and slavery, enough members of the human race will finally see the importance of health freedom and take the necessary action to regain it and defend it for generations to come. In the grand experiment of nations and civilizations now playing out across our tiny planet, those nations which forget the importance of health and freedom are doomed to eventually destroy themselves. Only those nations which recognize freedom and invest in the health of their citizens have any sustainable future. And one day, such a nation of truly free people will undoubtedly rise from the ashes of whatever is left after the current global miscalculations run their course.

Doctor urges fast food restaurants to hand out statin drugs like ketchup packets (opinion)

(NaturalNews) It sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but it isn’t: A doctor from Imperial College London whose study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology has proclaimed that people who eat burgers and milkshakes at fast food restaurants should be given free statin drugs (like ketchup packets) to counteract the cholesterol effects of eating burgers. “Fast food outlets could provide statin drugs free of charge,” says Dr. Darrel Francis, lead author of study, who goes on to complain that statin drugs shouldn’t be prescription drugs at all. People should be able to get them as easily as asking for a packet of ketchup: “It makes sense to make risk-reducing supplements available just as easily as the unhealthy condiments that are provided free of charge,” Francis says, calling statins a “supplement” instead of a drug. Yeah, as if it were a nutrient or something. What Francis doesn’t mention is the disastrous side effects of statin drugs: Extreme muscle pain and weakness, kidney failure, the loss of CoQ10 (a vital nutrient for heart health), liver damage, erectile dysfunction, constipation and much more. I know people who say they were almost killed by statin drugs but who thankfully recognized the symptoms and stopped taking these dangerous chemical medications before things got worse. But this doctor from Imperial College London apparently doesn’t believe such side effects are a big deal. Statin drugs are so safe, he says, that fast food restaurants should just hand them out like candy. Dangerous advice from a doctor The very premise of this argument is extremely dangerous: That you can go ahead and keep eating toxic fast food as long as you “protect” yourself by taking dangerous chemical medications. Gee, could you possibly get any worse health advice? It’s no wonder this advice is coming from a conventional M.D. The idea that you can block the harm from fast food by swallowing a patented chemical medication with your meal is so absurd as to be stupid. Really: It’s just a simplistic, low-I.Q. conclusion from a doctor who obviously knows nothing about nutrition. What’s he going to recommend next? Free chemo pills to counteract the cancer-causing effects of bacon and sausage? Here, kids, chow down on a little chemo before you head off to school. It’s good for ya! Maybe the industry will come up with gummy-shaped chemo bears for kids. (Don’t laugh. I’ve made similarly comical suggestions in the past that turned out to be true…) But here’s the best part of Dr. Francis’ absurd logic: He compares taking statin drugs to the safety of wearing a seat belt while driving! “When people engage in risky behaviors like driving or smoking, they’re encouraged to take measures that minimize their risk, like wearing a seatbelt or choosing cigarettes with filters. Taking a statin is a rational way of lowering some of the risks of eating a fatty meal,” he says. Sure it is — if you enjoy kidney disease, liver disease, muscle weakness, CoQ10 depletion and other side effects. If you’re a foolish consumer who thinks you can counteract the dangerous chemicals in fast food by swallowing another dangerous chemical to “counteract” it, then free statin drugs might sound downright brilliant. But in the real world, where the laws of biochemistry don’t cater to the absurd ideas of drug-pushing researchers, fast food is bad for your health… and so is taking chemical medications. If you combine them, you don’t neutralize your health risk — you increase your total health risk by expanding it into all the areas of statin drug side effects. So now, instead of just destroying your heart and pancreas by wolfing down fast food, you’re also threatening your liver and kidneys with a chemical drug. That a doctor would actually recommend giving out free statin drugs to fast food customers is yet more proof that conventional medical training is a total failure and that mainstream doctors continue to remain clueless about real answers to health. The real answer to health, in this case, is to stop eating fast food hamburgers and milkshakes . And stop taking dangerous chemical medications while you’re at it. If you really want a healthy heart, blend up a superfood smoothie for lunch, or eat some heart-healthy fresh fruits and vegetables. What’s next from medical Loonyville? Now, think about this story. If Imperial College London can actually issue a press release touting this quack research (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-8-2010-11-24-54), and if a high-level researcher like Dr Darrel Francis (http://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/d.francis/) can genuinely conclude that free medications should be handed out to customers like ketchup packets, then what else might these people come up with? Happy Meals with free antidepressants , of course! Buy a Happy Meal and your kid gets some psychiatric drugs included with the toy. Munch away, kiddies! Or how about free diabetes drugs with every 12-pack of Coca-Cola products . Drink up all that liquid sugar, folks, and just be sure to swallow your diabetes pills that are included! Why not have free chemotherapy pills in every pack of hot dogs? That way, little kids can eat their hot dogs and then experience just enough nausea to vomit the processed meat back up. Problem solved! See, this whole idea that you can just throw more chemical medications at consumers and thereby “protect” them from food-induced diseases is pure medical madness. That someone from the world of conventional medicine would even suggest such a thing speaks poorly about the credibility of the medical industry at large. It’s becoming increasingly obvious to even mainstream consumers that following the health advice of conventional doctors is a very bad idea . Hey, why not just sell statin drug sandwiches where the drugs are baked right into the bread? Don’t laugh: It wasn’t too long ago that doctors in America suggested they drip statin drugs into the water supply because the drugs were so safe and effective that everyone needed them! Yeah, just like fluoride, if you can believe that. You know, I think the bottom line here is that too many medical researchers are taking their own drugs. Because one of the very first side effects from taking daily medications is a loss of cognitive function and impaired ability to reason. And when that goes, there’s no telling what kind of whoppers these people will come up with. Sources for this story: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-8-2010-11-24-54

How to Get Rid of Head Lice Naturally

(NaturalNews) Head lice are easily transmitted by head-to head contact or by sharing combs, brushes or caps. Infestations are common in school children but this is not an indication of poor hygiene or dirty hair. Lice lay their eggs along the base of the hair shaft, close to the scalp. Conventional cures include the application of strong smelling insecticides or shampoos which can be harmful to health, especially in the case of small children. Go the natural route in preventing and treating head lice infestations. Preventing Head Lice Do not think a problem with lice will not affect you or your family. Inspect your child’s head regularly for lice and nits, paying particular attention to the hairline, neck and areas above the ears. If there is an outbreak at your child’s school, be even more thorough. To repel lice, comb the hair twice a week with a comb dipped in a mug of warm water containing a few drops of tea tree oil. Treating Head Lice Ensure that the affected family members use separate towels and face cloths and wash bedding, pillowcases and brushes in hot water. Use a fine toothed nit comb to remove lice from the hair, working through the hair section at a time. Repeat the treatment regularly and newly hatched lice will gradually be removed. Diligently repeating this process for at least two weeks is one of the most effective ways of removing head lice without the use of insecticidal shampoos. Essential Oils to Treat Lice Infestations To kill lice and soothe an itching scalp, add two drops each of lavender, geranium and eucalyptus oils to a teaspoon of natural, unscented body lotion. Massage into the scalp and leave for 30 minutes to an hour. Run a fine-toothed, nit comb through the hair, then rinse well. Make a final rinse by adding two drops each of eucalyptus, lavender, rosemary and geranium oils and 3 teaspoons of vinegar into half a jug of water. Rinse and leave the hair to dry naturally. Nigella Sativa is said to be an excellent cure for head lice and other skin parasites. One cup of finely ground seeds blended with a cup of apple cider vinegar, filtered and then applied to the hair is said to be an excellent natural cure for head lice. Be sure to visit a qualified homeopath if a child’s scalp becomes inflamed or infected or if the above treatment proves to be ineffective. Women who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant should exercise caution when it comes to the use of certain essential oils or herbs and it would be best to get the advice of a homeopath or herbalist in this case. Sources: http://aromatherapy.suite101.com/article.cfm/natural_head_lice_treatment_with_essential_oils Where There is No Doctor, page 200, by David Werner, Published by The Hesperian Foundation, 1994 edition. http://www.naturalnews.com/026868_Nigella_Sativa_migraine_seeds.html http://pediatrics.about.com/od/weeklyquestion/a/05_head_lice.htm About the author Fleur Hupston enjoys natural foods and products and enjoys sharing her findings with others. She is a feature writer for Suite101 and other blogs.

Choking on Hot Dogs? It’s not the shape, it’s the ingredients

(NaturalNews) The American Academy of Pediatrics is making headlines this week with a bizarre recommendation that hot dogs should be re-shaped to make them less of a choking hazard for children. But there’s no mention of all the cancer-causing chemical ingredients that actually go into the hot dogs. Pediatric physicians are apparently more concerned about the shape than the ingredients. And they apparently have no concern about the truth that hot dogs contain cancer-causing ingredients . Hot dogs contain sodium nitrite, of course — a cancer-causing ingredient that’s been widely linked to pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer. People who eat hot dogs and other processed meats have a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer (http://www.naturalnews.com/007024.html). Processed meats no doubt contribute to a large number of childhood cancers. According to the National Cancer Institute, over 1,500 children die each year in the United States from childhood cancer (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/childhood). How many children actually die from choking on hot dogs, anyway? I’ll bet you it’s a fraction of the number of children who die from leukemia or brain cancer each year. That the AAP would be so concerned about the shape of hot dogs while remaining silent about the health harm caused by hot dog ingredients isn’t all that surprising, actually: These are physicians who often focus on treating children with yet more chemicals such as ADHD drugs, antibiotics and antidepressants. One such pediatrician just got arrested for sexually assaulting over one hundred children in his medical practice (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253095/U-S-paediatrician-faces-471-sex-charges-103-child-patients-police-discover-13-hours-video-surgery.html). Of course, that whacko doesn’t represent all pediatricians. Most pediatric physicians are caring human beings who really want to help children. And that’s where this advice about changing the shape of hot dogs comes from: These doctors genuinely want to prevent children from choking on these processed meat products. So what should the new shape be… rectangular? Should hot dogs be made into long rectangle shapes so they resemble pink lumber? It would certainly prevent them from rolling out of the buns, wouldn’t it? Then again, we might have to redesign the buns, too. Square hot dogs, you see, don’t fit right in round buns. So we’d have to recalibrate the entire chain of processed junk food just to prevent children from choking on the dogs. Personally, I think we should engage a little truth in advertising and just mandate that hot dogs be reshaped into fleshy cancer tumors . That way, you really know what you’re eating. If these dogs resembled the diseased animals they’re sometimes made from, choking would no longer be a problem at all because no one would eat them in the first place! Check out my mystery meat macrophotography to see actual pictures of hot dogs, salami and other processed meats up close and personal : http://www.naturalnews.com/PhotoTour_Mystery_Meat_1.html What’s really in hot dogs According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all infant choking emergency room visits are caused by food. Another one-third are caused by non-food items such as coins, buttons and marbles, and 9 percent of choking incidents are caused by “undetermined” objects. As in, “What the heck does little Joey have in his mouth?” If he’s choking on a hot dog, then what he has in his mouth should be quite frightening: Ground-up bits of meat scraps gathered from thousands of different carcasses from animals that were pumped full of hormones, fed chicken litter as part of their diet, treated inhumanely and slaughtered in a highly fearful environment that releases even more “terror” hormones into the meat at the moment of death. On top of all that, there are the chemical additive ingredients that cause cancer and other diseases. Here are the ingredients for Oscar Meyer hot dogs: MECHANICALLY SEPARATED TURKEY, PORK, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN, WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, FLAVOR, SODIUM LACTATE, CORN SYRUP, DEXTROSE, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE. Yumm! Sodium nitrite and corn syrup! Just what every little boy needs to grow up big and strong (and diabetic). And you just gotta love “mechanically separated turkey,” pork and chicken. This is a technical-sounding term for a process that used to be called “mechanically reclaimed meat” (MRM). As described on Wikipedia: “Mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork, turkey or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. Mechanically separated meat has been used in certain meat and meat products since the late 1960s. This product can be contrasted with meat extracted by advanced meat recovery systems. The most common use of MSM is into hotdogs.” Did you know that spinal cords go into the MRM machines, too? Yumm… spinal cord juice! As Wikipedia explains: “Concerns were raised …when the BSE epidemic, otherwise known as Mad-Cow Disease, was discovered in the United Kingdom in 1986. Since bits of the spinal cord (the part most likely to be carrying BSE) often got mixed in with the rest of the meat; products using mechanically separated meat taken from the carcasses of bovines were at higher risk for transmitting BSE to humans.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat) Today, however, mechanically-separated beef isn’t allowed in hot dogs, but turkey, pork and chicken certainly is. What’s a little pig spine in your food, anyway? How about some bird brain? Or some turkey tendon juice? Lick it up, suckers! If you’re eating hot dogs, you’re basically eating animal juice paste . MRM machines are essentially animals juicers that extract protein paste from carcasses. Combined with a little corn syrup, sodium nitrite and other chemicals, you get hot dogs! Are you choking yet? If not, just view the mystery meat macrophotography here: http://www.naturalnews.com/PhotoTour_Mystery_Meat_1.html Sources for this story include http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/23/hot-dogs-top-food-hazards

Vitacost extends exclusive 10% discount to NaturalNews readers through Feb. 21

(NaturalNews) It’s good news time once again for NaturalNews readers: Vitacost.com, which was recently voted the #1 online retailer of health products by NaturalNews readers, is offering 10% discount on all its NSI-branded products. This discount is only good for a few days: It expires at midnight, February 21, 2010. The offer is good on all NSI branded products at www.Vitacost.com Use discount code NNRC10 to take advantage of this incredible discount! Why Vitacost? Vitacost is more than just the top internet retailer of health products in the USA, it’s also a company with a top-notch in-house manufacturing facility. I’ve actually toured Vitacost. I’ve seen the manufacturing operations first-hand, and I’ve met with the people running the show there. This is a company that offers first-rate products at extremely competitive prices. They accomplish this because they manufacture and sell their products directly to consumers, bypassing any need for retailer markups or brick-and-mortar retail stores. This translates into huge cost savings for you, the consumer. The NSI brand offers over 700 health and nutritional products to choose from, too. From probiotics to superfood antioxidants like astaxanthin , NSI covers a wide variety of health-related products that can support and enhance your health. See a complete list of the NSI branded products at: http://www.vitacost.com/NSI Here’s a list of some of my personal favorites: (Note – the descriptions below each product listing are my own opinions and not officials descriptions from Vitacost.com. NaturalNews has no financial relationship with Vitacost.) 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Choose the BioAstin brand if you want a soy-free formula. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Natural-Astaxanthin-Featuring-Hawaiian-BioAstin NSI Pine Bark Extract – Amazing antioxidant. I’ve used this for years. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Pine-Bark-Extract-95-OPC NSI AHCC Immune Booster – A super powerful formula. I’ve recommended it to family and friends. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-AHCC-Immune-Booster NSI Bone Booster Complex – A fantastic collection of nutrients for supporting bone health and proper bone density. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Bone-Booster-Complex-with-MCHA-Vitamin-D NSI DIM Complex with BroccoSinolate – An excellent source of phytonutrients from broccoli. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-DIM-Complex-with-BroccoSinolate NSI Cherry Fruit Extract – Cherries contain nutrients that have been scientifically shown to reduce pain and swelling. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Cherry-Fruit-Extract NSI SKO Superior Krill Oil – For those wanting a source of premium krill oil, this is an excellent choice with a much better price. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-SKO-trade-Superior-Krill-Oil-Compare-to-Neptune-Krill-Oil-NKO NSI Organic Mushroom Ultra-10 Complex – A collection of 10 medicinal mushrooms offering an assortment of supportive health benefits. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Organic-Mushroom-Ultra-10-Complex NSI Bioenergy Ribose Pure D-Ribose – A remarkable supplement for a normal, healthy heart. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Bioenergy-Ribose-Pure-D-Ribose NSI Pure Tea Tree Oil – 4 oz. of pure oil with many topical uses. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-100-Pure-Tea-Tree-Oil NSI High ORAC Oregano – Powerful digestive aid. I use it when traveling. http://www.vitacost.com/NSI-Origanox-Standardized-High-ORAC-Oregano Those are just some of my favorites. You can shop at www.Vitacost.com for many more. Remember, this exclusive 10% discount applies only to the NSI brand of products at Vitacost. Use coupon code NNRC10 This exclusive discount expires at midnight, February 21, 2010. After you place your order – Beware of “Cash Back” offer After ordering from Vitacost.com, you will see a page that says “Exclusive Thank-You Reward – Claim $20 Cash Back Now – PLUS $10 cash back every month!” In my opinion, this is a gimmicky offer that you may wish to avoid because unless you read the fine print, you could unintentionally get signed up for the “SavingsAce” program which will cost you $19.95 per month, charged to your credit card. Over the last few years, NaturalNews has received numerous complaints from readers who felt they were duped into this post-sale program. Although the fine print explains what this “offer” really is, many people don’t read the fine print and they mistakenly think it’s still part of the Vitacost purchase process. So they fill out the form to claim their “cash back” and then they’re surprised to see these $19.95 charges appearing on their credit card each month. We’ve never received any complaints about Vitacost except for those concerning this cash back offer. Vitacost did recently change this offer from a one-click button to a whole new form where you must now fill out your entire credit card information in order to sign up for it. This change has already reduced some of the complaints because it makes it less likely for people to accidentally sign up for the service. Nevertheless, the presentation of this cash back special offer could be seen as somewhat misleading: It says, in big bold letters “$120 cash back a year” but doesn’t say anything about the fact that this “benefit” will cost you roughly $240 a year until you get to the fine print. I don’t know about you, but I’m not interested in paying somebody $240 a year just to get $120 back. So my advice is to avoid this post-sale cash back offer called “SavingsAce.” It is the only thing about Vitacost that has ever generated complaints from our readers. But remember this: Vitacost is an outstanding company. They offer high quality products at very reasonable prices. They were voted the #1 internet retailer of health products by NaturalNews readers! This cash back offer is completely optional — you can just skip it and you’ll never have to worry about it. That’s what I do: I take advantage of the 10% discount to order products from Vitacost, too (I’m a regular customer), and I just make sure to skip the “cash back” offer that appears following the checkout process. Enjoy this exclusive Vitacost discount! It’s only good through midnight, February 21, 2010.

Heal yourself in 15 days: Stop making disease by embracing the recipe for health

(NaturalNews) It also seems too simple: In order to achieve lasting health, simply stop making disease . But the concept is foreign to most people: Making disease? Why would I be making disease? Mainstream consumers, you see, have been trained by the medical industry to believe that disease strikes spontaneously, without any real cause. One day you have nothing wrong with you, and then suddenly the next day you’re diagnosed with a breast cancer tumor. Shazam! It happens just like being struck by lightning… (and it’s not your fault, you’re told — there’s nothing you could have done about it…) That’s what they want you to believe, anyway. But the truth is very different: All the most common degenerative diseases — cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, etc. — take many years to grow and expand . A cancer tumor can take 10 years (or even more) before it grows to the size that will show up on a mammogram. That means the tumor has been “under construction” for a decade! During that time, the patient has been “making cancer” on a daily basis. By the way, I’ve borrowed this concept from Dr. Thomas Lodi, a brilliant cancer doctor who has a presentation called “Stop Making Cancer.” You can check out his clinic in Arizona at http://www.anoasisofhealing.com or watch his speech for yourself on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKH_bCa_hok Dr. Lodi’s concept of “stop making cancer” is so powerful and simple that I borrowed it for this article (with credit, of course) and expanded it to all degenerative diseases. If you want to be healthy, stop making disease! How disease is manufactured In reading this, the first question you might ask is, “How do I stop making disease?” To answer that question, though, you need to understand how disease is created in the first place. All disease begins with an imbalance in the mind or the body (it can originate in either place and then spread to the other). Disease can be set off by a nutritional deficiency (not enough vitamin D, for example), or a dietary excess (too much homogenized milk). It can be caused by an emotional state such as anger or stress that then spreads to the tissues and begins to create dis-ease in the physical body. Most disease that’s being “manufactured” in the bodies of people today is created through controllable factors: What people eat, what chemicals they expose themselves too, how much exercise they get (or not), their state of mind, what supplements they take (or don’t) and so on. There’s a recipe for creating each disease. If you want to manufacture type-2 diabetes, for example, the recipe is very simple: How to manufacture diabetes: • Drink lots of liquid sugars and high-fructose corn syrup. • Consume a huge number of empty calories (junk food). • Avoid all exercise. Live a sedentary lifestyle. • Live indoors. Avoid sunshine and the natural world. • Maintain nutritional deficiencies in vitamin D, selenium, zinc and plant-based nutrients. If you do this for long enough, you will begin manufacturing diabetes . And before long, you’ll be officially diagnosed with it by a doctor who will say something like, “You’re diabetic.” (Which isn’t really true. You are not defined by a disease. You’re just expressing a certain physiology that’s been named a disease.) If you want to make cancer, there’s a different recipe: How to make cancer: • Expose yourself to radiation (mammograms, CT scans, X-rays, etc.). • Eat cancer-causing foods like bacon, processed meats and foods with chemical preservatives. • Avoid all anti-cancer nutrients like superfoods, medicinal mushrooms, spirulina, etc. • Avoid sunlight. Remains deficient in vitamin D. • Use lots of toxic personal care products made with cancer-causing chemicals. • Live a high-stress lifestyle. Do these things for long enough and you’ll get cancer. Similarly, there’s a recipe for every major degenerative disease, including kidney stones (drink lots of soda), brain cancer (drink diet soda), obesity (eat more MSG), liver disease (take more pharmaceuticals) and so on. So if you want to make disease, it’s a very simple matter to do so. Shockingly, most people are following these disease-making recipes right now! They’re living the “Make More Disease” lifestyle! Every time they wolf down some bacon, or eat processed junk foods, or use conventional personal care products, they are creating disease in their bodies! Disease doesn’t appear immediately, of course. It takes many years for the daily poisoning of the body to be diagnosed as disease. But make no mistake about the origins of that disease: The body manufactured the disease over many years! So when doctors tell patients “There’s nothing you could have done to prevent this” they are actually lying to their patients. Of course there’s something you can do! You can stop making disease before it gets out of control. Conventional doctors usually don’t like to acknowledge this because it would give patients the idea that they have control over their own health. Most conventional doctors would rather believe the Big Lie that says doctors control your health, or that disease strikes randomly, without cause. And therefore you have no control over your own health and are dependent on western medicine to take responsibility for your health. It’s a belief system specifically designed to entrap you in a system of medical dependency (enslavement). Fortunately, you can free yourself from medical enslavement … How to stop making disease Each day, depending on what you eat, drink, do or put on your body, you are either moving towards disease or away from disease. The way to stop making disease, then, is to halt any actions that move you toward disease and, instead, pursue actions they move you away from disease (and toward improved health). Once you fill your body with living, healing juices, sunlight and regular exercise, you will shut off all kinds of chemical “disease-making” processes in your physiology. And you’ll activate healing processes that move you towards lifelong health. This is how you start making health instead of disease. The longer you pursue a healthful lifestyle based on superfoods, nutritional supplements, healthy eating and the avoidance of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, mainstream personal care products and other poisons, the faster your healing will accelerate! Beyond the mere halting of manufacturing disease, once your body achieves a certain level of vitality, it will begin to automatically reverse disease . Cancer tumors in your body, in other words, will literally vanish over time. Heart disease can be cured. Diabetes may disappear. Cognitive function will be restored. These are just a few of the many benefits you may experience when self-healing is in full swing. Which recipe will you choose? You see, there is a recipe for disease, but there’s also a recipe for outstanding health. Which recipe will you choose? Most people inadvertently choose a recipe for disease (it’s the recipe everyone else is pursuing, so it’s easy to go along with). And because they follow that recipe, they get the results of that recipe. That’s why disease should not be surprising to anyone who knows these recipes. If you follow the recipe, you will get the results (good or bad). So it’s up to you to decide which recipe you wish to follow . You can choose from all the various recipes for disease — which include enormous quantities of junk foods, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and a barrage of vaccines — or you can choose to pursue the recipe for good health. That recipe is based on sound nutrition, fresh fruits and vegetables, time spent outdoors in nature, real sunlight on your skin, targeted nutritional supplements, regular exercise and the elimination of synthetic chemicals from your body. It’s a simple, commonsense recipe that anyone can choose to follow at any time. The minute you start pursuing the recipe for health , you will begin to see results. And the longer you pursue this recipe, the more your positive results will accelerate. Ask your doctor Remember this the next time your doctor or some other health professional gives you advice. After receiving their advice, ask yourself, “Is this a recipe for HEALTH, or for DISEASE?” If the advice includes a lot of radiation, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals, surgery or injections of some kind, it’s probably not describing a recipe for health. Be wary of any advice that does not resonate with the simple principles of commonsense health… as in, don’t irradiate yourself. Don’t poison yourself (chemo). Don’t cut your body (surgery). Don’t use chemicals to control your physiology (pharmaceuticals). Use these only as a last resort when all other options have been exhausted. Certainly, if you suffer some sort of accident like a broken leg, then it’s perfectly okay to submit to the necessary surgery, anesthesia or other elements of acute medical care. I’m not against western medicine’s usefulness in emergency care situations. But when it comes to long term habits of health, be aware that pharmaceuticals, mammograms, chemotherapy, vaccines and most surgeries are really just components of the recipe for disease . So if you choose to follow that route, don’t be surprised at the outcome. By the way, following the recipe for health may take more self discipline and maturity than following the recipe for disease, but it’s far more rewarding . For one thing, you get to live longer. Better yet, you get to live happier and healthier during all those years. And isn’t that essentially why we’re all interested in the health in the first place? There is a recipe for perfect health . It’s a recipe that’s available to you right now, and it’s the same recipe that will stop your body from manufacturing disease. Follow that recipe for good health and you will experience far more enjoyment in your life, no matter how long you live.